John Stark is a uniquely experienced independent consultant and adviser who helps companies improve their product development and delivery performance. Working closely with a company's executive officers, directors and managers, his emphasis is on the combined use of technology and management practices to achieve results. His objective is to work closely with a small number of companies and be a key, long-term partner in helping them implement change and succeed in meeting their goals.

John Stark has an excellent technical and business background, including 6 years with Battelle Research Centers and 6 years as a management consultant with Coopers & Lybrand. As an independent consultant since 1991 his consultancy clients have included companies such as Blum (Austria), ABB (Finland), Autoliv, Braun and Henkel (Germany), ABB, Charmilles, Nestlé and Schindler (Switzerland), and 3M, Aerojet, Allied Signal, AMP, ATT, Coca-Cola, Dover Elevator, Eaton, Ford, General Motors, Kodak, Midland Grau, Sikorsky and Xerox (US). (Typical assignments)

Areas in which John Stark provides assistance in the Engineering, R&D and Product development environments include:

John Stark is accustomed to working in international environments, teams and multifunctional organizations. He is innovative, a positive thinker and responsive to customer requirements. He is a self-starter, builds working relationships quickly, works with the urgency called for by the pressures and demands of today's competitive environment, and has demonstrated the resilience necessary to overcome the difficulties of implementing change. He has a truly professional approach and is of great integrity.

John Stark has B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College, London, England. He is the founding Editor of the Engineering Data Management Newsletter, a monthly Newsletter with over 500 subscribers in more than 20 countries - and is the author of 10 books addressing CAD/CAM, CIM, computers in Engineering and Manufacturing, and EDM/PDM. The most recent are Engineering Information Management Systems - beyond CAD/CAM to Concurrent Engineering support (1992), and Competing by Design (1994). His 'Competitive Manufacturing through Information Technology : The Executive Challenge' has been translated into Japanese.